Lights Out - Does anyone else find the beginning ER scene absultely cringe worthy and laughable?
I'm sure this probably doesn't come across this way for everyone. I'm assuming it's because I've done EMS/ER for fifteen years.
We are wayyyyy more fucked up, blunt, and diabolical than the two protrayed "seasoned" nurses. We will make such horrible jokes that would make any 'normal' people gasp and clutch their pearls. Guy got run over by a car? His name is now ground beef, and the cow jokes will be relentless.
We would also NEVER lie to the new kid, we will let you know what a typical night is, and then we will tell you about our absolute worst, the ones where you got your ass handed to you so hard youd be begging God for a new asshole. Then we'd tell you about the nights that REALLY fucked us up, those aren't the traumas it's the stories behind it.
We have to make sure you can handle it. Not dance around your feelings. That's what after shift breakfast drinks are for.
But really this entire scene gave me icky Greys Anatomy vibes. (For the poor medicine, not the drama.)
What other scenes in books give you this same feeling?